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And why would he say that?

Because if I don’t go back, he’ll kill Trinity.

Faced with returning to your pod or enduring

Trinity’s death again.

What would you choose, Neo?

I’ll go back.

Well, The Analyst knows you well, but that knowledge has made him incautious.

After you escaped, he should have accepted his losses and devacuated Trinity.

But that would have prevented this extraordinary opportunity that now exists before us.

A few hours ago, no one would have been able to convince me that I would be standing here, trying to explain a mission as crazy as this one.

What are you doing?

Volunteering.

Oh, no.

You are the one captain that I am ordering to go.

Now you don’t have to order me, General, ‘cause I’m volunteering.

I need two more.

Are you out of your minds?

You don’t even know what it is.

General, we know you.

If you say this is important, none of us is choosing to stay home.

Thank you.

Knuckle up, and good luck.

Trinity is held in the Anomaleum, which is in this transmission tower.

The passages used to rescue Neo are now sealed and a legion of Sentinels patrols the tower.

So, stealth will be paramount.

As long as we raise no alarms, this first part of the mission should be the easiest.

You mean crossing the Fetus Fields, sneaking across an entire power plant, climbing a two-kilometer tower guarded by thousands of Sentinels?

That’s the easy part?

Exactly so.

Because all we have to do is convince someone who does this every day to take one of us along.

Fifty meters below the Anomaleum is a stratum of amniotic filters.

Hidden along this edge is a small hexagonal vent.

This vent feeds the air intake into the corpuscular modifier, which oxygenates the bio-gel used in Neo’s pod.

I get it.

The exomorph slinkies up Neo’s old umbilicus.

What could go wrong?

Once inside, Morpheus will use the System Operator to open the devacuator line and disengage the macerators.

In order to unplug Trinity’s body, while her mind still remains connected to the Matrix, I’m gonna need a second human brain to implement the bypass.

And since Neo must be with The Analyst, the only available mind that’s a near-enough match is yours.

Figures.

Thanks, Cybebe.

Does Trinity still have to take the red pill?

Since Kujaku and I are transferring her consciousness onto the ship, it’s not strictly necessary.

But what matters is that this is her choice.

Extracting a confused or an uncertain mind will, in all probability, kill her.

But even if it is what she wants, won’t The Analyst just order the Sentinels to stop you?

He will.

But if my plan works, it won’t matter.

Why?

Because we’ll already be gone.

Somebody thinks this hard about a plan, there has to be a reason why.

When my father realized how the Anomaleum was going to be used, he covertly transferred the designs to me.

The Analyst discovered his betrayal and had my parents purged.

I would have been murdered too if it wasn’t for Kujaku.

Not a day goes by that I don’t grieve them.

I’ve been praying for this day for a very long time.

We’re coming up on broadcast.

I thought you should know that I’m here because of her.

All I ever wanted was to be as fearless as Trinity.

But I saw how she reacted in the garage, and I.

You’re wondering if I’m wrong.

What if we’re too late?

What if she’s not Trinity anymore?

I never believed I was The One.

But she did.

She believed in me.

It’s my turn to believe in her.

This is where it gets tricky.

Have you ever done an operation like this?

Not yet.

Here we go.

Welcome home.

All I want is to talk to her.

Do you mean Tiff?

Come back, and you can talk to her as often as you like.

I mean, handsome Chad may have something to say about it.

If she tells me this is what she wants, you win.

Really?

But if she wants me, then you’ll let us go free.

And why would I do something as stupid as that?

Right now, I’m on a ship full of people who will unplug me before they’ll let you take me back.

If you want this Matrix, this is your only chance.

But how do I know they won’t unplug you anyway?

Same way I know you’ll let us walk out of here.

Okay.

I like tests.

We’ll let Tiff decide.

That’s it.

Bypass is ready.

Now what?

We wait.

Doesn’t it seem crazy to come all this way and leave her here?

We must abide by her decision.

And if she says no, what happens to Neo?

At this time, the most important choice of Neo’s life is not his to make.

I saw this in my dream.

If I was the Oracle, maybe I could explain it.

The Oracle.

From your game?

It’s not a game.

Oh, God.

After you left, I went home and I played it.

I kept thinking, why does this story feel like a memory?

There’s a part of me that feels like I have been waiting my whole life for you.

And that part is like, “What the hell took you so long?”

I don’t have an easy answer.

Maybe I was afraid of this.

Afraid of what might happen.

Afraid of hurting the only person I ever loved.

I wish I was who you think I am.

But look at me.

I can’t be her.

Mom!

Mom!

Come on.

Mom!

It’s Callie.

Is this real?

You have to come with us.

Come on, we gotta go.

Tiff, hey.

Don’t know what’s going on here, but I’m glad we found you.

She got hit by a car!

I know, it’s crazy.

She was chasing after you.

They’re casting her arm.

We gotta go.

Doctor said she’s gonna be fine.

You have to come with us to the hospital.

It’s too late.

I understand.

Tiff, come on, let’s go.

Come on.

What’s happening?

Neo was wrong.

Tiffany.

Tiffany, you have to come with us.

Tiffany!

I wish you would fucking stop calling me that.

I hate that name.

My name is Trinity and you better take your hands off of me.

Neo!

Trinity!

Oh, shit.

Get her out.

Get her out!

Aye-yi-yi, what a mess.

I own that mistake.

Shouldn’t have pressed.

Women used to be so easy to control.

You know there’s no way I can let you two go free.

Cannot happen.

So, I guess it’s deja vu all over again.

She dies and it’s all your fault.

Lies, lies and more lies.

Smith?

What has the world come to when you can’t even trust a program?

How.

Tom and I have more in common than you know.

Once he got out,

let’s just say, I was free to be me.

Yeah!

Trinity?

You ready?

Yeah.

Oh, no.

Destroy her.

Destroy her!